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Regional Systems Analysis
at UC Davis
Professor G. William Skinner
Research Team
Mailing address: Department of Anthropology
One Shields Avenue, Davis,CA 95616-8522 USA
Office: 1615 Fifth Street,
Davis
Telephone: 530/297-1960
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We are an interdisciplinary
research team conducting spatial analyses of regional systems in
contemporary China as
well as early modern Japan
and France.
For each project we are constructing a spatial framework, referred to as
Hierarchical Regional Space (HRS), building on central place theory from
Christaller and regional systems theory from von Thunen. Geographic
information systems (GIS) facilitate modeling the core-periphery structures
of macroregional systems at multiple hierarchical scales. In the societies
under analysis here, the HRS model provides a useful framework for
explaining the spatial variation in many demographic and ecological
phenomena.
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Selected Publications
and Presentations
Ushiba Fellowship Lectures, Tokyo, May 2008 New!
The Spatial Logic of
Economic Development in Contemporary China.
The Cultural Logic of Chinese Reproductive
Behavior.
Historical
GIS Conference, Nagoya, 2007
Association
for Asian Studies 2006
Public Lecture, Shanghai, May 2005
China's Fertility
Transition (Social Science History v23 n1)
International
Workshop for Historical GIS, 2001
Association
for Asian Studies 2000
Geoinformatics '99
Publications
by G. William Skinner
Marketing
and Social Structure in Rural China (1964-65)
The City in Late Imperial China (1977)
"The
Structure of Chinese History" (1985) Maps
Projects Underway
Technical documents
China
1982-1990-2000 Census
analysis
Late
Qing Cities and Physiographic Macroregions
Periodic markets of Shandong province
Japan
Early Meiji Historical GIS
Regional structure of the Nobi Plain (Nagoya)
France
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Contacts and
Collaborators
G.
William Skinner (gwskinner@ucdavis.edu)
Kristin Tennessen,
Stasticial Programmer
Dana Chou, Research
Assistant
Kyle
Matoba, Research Assistant
Michele Ladenson, Ph.D.
candidate, UCD Anthropology
Mark Henderson, Mills College Program in Public Policy
Zumou Yue, Late Qing City
Historical Analysis
Yuan Jianhua, Beijing
Institute of Information and Control
Tsune Mizoguchi,
University of
Nagoya
Ted Margadant,
UC Davis History
Wei Wang, Harvard University School
of Public Health
Lawrence Crissman, ACASIAN, Griffith University, Australia
The China Data Center at
the University
of Michigan
CITAS at the University of Washington
The China Historical GIS Project
based at the Harvard-Yenching Library and Fudan University
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